In the recent US Trans Survey, More than one-third (35%) of respondents indicated that their gender identity was best described as nonbinary or genderqueer (US Trans Survey). Here are just a few of the amazing gender queer & non-binary individuals who are bringing visibility to the movement.READ MORE

2016 Ignacio was featured as a Queer Icon by photographer Gabriel Garcia Ramon​I live in this place called the middle. A place not yet defined, not yet understood, nor accepted. I am everything but never nothing, cause nothing doesn't derive from anything, and I do!!Navigated their Rules & gender regulations. Not allowed to look like.....I come from pink sheets, flowered dresses, ponytails, babydolls, stuffed brash & make up, gender fluid-gender/ gender-fuck. READ MORE​

2016 5 Trans Writers Who Are Redefining Masculinity

"I question what masculinity means daily. I've personally never identified as feminine or masculine. These are identities that people assume. My gender flows. I interrupt the gender binary through my writing, performance, short films, speaking, and education. Currently and more often than not, I'm a gay male passing but actually genderqueer person." READ MORE

We Happy Trans, a website that celebrates the positive experiences of transgender people, and This is H.O.W., a Phoenix-based trans advocacy organization, have teamed up for the first-ever “Trans 100” list.READ MORE

As child sexual abuse survivors begin to stand up and speak out about their own experiences, they are filling the world with their perspectives. One of those survivors, Ignacio Rivera, hopes to not only share a personal experience with abuse, but amplify the voices of others.READ MORE

There are so many things that need to be highlighted as part of Black Trans History. In the past few years we have seen a rise in Black Trans magic and unfortunately the devastation of hatred of Black and Black Trans people in this country. Black Trans history is abundant with wonderful and tragic tales. ​READ MORE

I’m a long-time activists with roots in grassroots organizing. I’ve worked across many movements and continue to work in trans, POC and sexual liberation movements. I’m also a performer and that is where my work around CSA pretty much began.READ MORE

2016 Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children published by the Feminist Wire

Love is overwhelming. I’m not referring to the act or ability to, but the very idea of it. It holds many meanings—interpretations. Love is subjective but love should be good—right? In that good love, how does accountability show up? What does love with accountability look like?READ MORE

2015 Reid Mihalko interviews Ignacio about Sex Geek Summer Camp

Amazing sex educator and sexuality/trans/kink/POC activist/educator, Ignacio Rivera aka Papi Coxxx, is joining us at Sex Geek Summer Camp this year to give a talk about racism/inclusion/intersectionality and host a trans round table. Join us!WATCH NOW

2015 Ignacio featured as one of the 7 Trans & Non-Binary Artists Doing the Work in Queer as Verb

Ignacio’s body of work “has focused on gender and sexuality; specifically on queer, trans, kink and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.” Their work enacts these intersections in a number of spaces: publication, professional development and lectureship, in film and on the stage. READ MORE

Ignacio’s experience of going by the pronoun “they” began almost a decade ago. They realized they were gender fluid, and wanted a pronoun to reflect that. Initially Ignacio asked people to use “he” and “she” pronouns interchangeably to refer to them, but that approach wasn't working. READ MORE

My gender presentation has been disturbing to some and intriguing to others. Forty-three years ago I was designated female at birth. I was raised as a niña, lived as a young lady and a strong mujer for thirty-some odd years. From the ages of fifteen and on, my life as a femme-heterosexual, femme-lesbian, dyke, androgynous queer, trans masculine, trans/gender queer being, has been a wonderful journey with no transitional end.​READ MORE

“Negotiating consent is a phrase often left out of our conversations about sex,” says Ignacio Rivera in a description of a workshop they will host on campus next week. “When we think of love, romance, relationships, sex and fucking, other thoughts and frameworks come to mind.”READ MORE

Ignacio has over 20 years experience on multiple fronts including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-imperialist work, as well feminist and LGBTQ movements. Inspired by the lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and discrimination.WATCH NOW

Ignacio is a queer trans-entity, black Boricua, lecturer, activist, and community organizer. Ignacio is also a poet and performance artist, mother, sex worker, and sex educator. In this interview, Ignacio reflects on their experience of queer and trans movements since the 1990s, taking up many of the themes that Amber raises, including that of sexual liberation.READ MORE

Rivera is an activist, performance artist, filmmaker and a founder of Queers for Economic Justice. Rivera recently performed at Fire in Kalamazoo and will give the keynote address at Kalamazoo Pride on Saturday.​READ MORE